Freight-car



(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1. J, BOGLE & J. S. O. SOWAR.

FREIGHT GAR.

,05'7. Patented Aug. 12, 1890-.

(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

J. BOGLE & J. S. O. SOWAR.

FREIGHT GAR.

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UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

JEROME BOGLE AND JOSEPH S. O. SOVVAR, OF BRAZIL, INDIANA.

FREIGHT-CAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 434,057, dated August 12, 1890.-

Application filed December 28,1889. Serial No. 335,242. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, JEROME BOGLE and JOSEPH S. C. SOWAR, citizens of the United States, residing at Brazil, in the county of Clay and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Freight-Cars; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in freight-cars, particularly those designed for the transportation of soft coal; and it consists in certain improvements on a car for which Letters Patent were granted to us, as assignees, No. 370,720, of date September 27, 1887, freight-car, the object of our said improvements being to obtain increased efficiency with greater simplicity of parts by means of important modifications hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate our invention, Figure 1 is a view of a side of a car having our improvements applied thereto; Fig. 2, a section on line x as, Fig. 1.

This inventin being an improvement on our former patent, No. 370,720, We shall limit the description to those features in which the new and useful modifications and improvements have been made, and for which Letters Patent are prayed by this application.

In our present invention the roof of the car is made the same width as the car proper.

The adjustable side or door of the car is constructed of -a folding section A, and sliding sections B, hinged thereto. The folding section A is composed of two or more longitudinal boards 0, which are connected to each other at suitable intervals by metallic braces j, the lower ends of which may terminate in a loop for the reception of the longitudinal rod I, whereby the sliding sections 13 are hinged to A. The sliding sections B are doors or gates, preferably formed of longitudinal slats m and suitable bracing-pieces 0. These doors are hinged, as aforesaid, to the folding section A by metallic strips 19, attached at or near their top, said metallic strips being similar in form and function to stripsj, and having a loop in their upper end whereby they are, suspended on the rod I.

k are irons bolted to the upright standards of the car to hold the doors or gates B in position when let down in order to open the car, it being designed-that the doors shall slide vertically between the standards, the irons is serving as guide rods or bars.

In order to raise and lower the adjustable side of the car, we employ chains g, which are attached in any convenient manner to the top of the longitudinal folding section A at the ends and at suitable intermediate points thereof, and are passed from thence over pul leys m 00, attached to the standards, to spools on the central longitudinal shaft F, as best shown in Fig. 2.

To open the car, the adjustable side is dropped by unwinding the chains from the central pulley-shaftF by a crank. (Not shown.) The doors B slide down readily between the standards, and when down full length, or at their lowest position, the longitudinal section A folds over the same, as shown in Fig. 2, where the boards 0 c of the folding section A are seen in cross-section, and the side of the car is open its entire length and ready to receive its load. Then by merely turning a crank on the shaft F the whole is drawn up into position and the car is closed. \Vhat we claim is- I l. The combination, in a freight-car, of an adjustable side composed of a longitudinal folding section and short sliding doors hinged in a pendent manner thereto, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with the longitudinal folding section, of the sliding doors, the metallic stripsj and p, and the rod I, by which the sliding doors are hinged to said section, substantially as described.

3. The combination, in a freight-car, with an adjustable side composed of a longitudinal folding section and short sliding doors hinged in a pendent manner thereto, ofguides bolted to the standards to properly guide and hold said sliding doors, substantially as described.

4. The combination, in a freight-car, with an adjustable side composed of a longitudinal folding section and short sliding doors hinged in a pendent manner thereto, of chains secured ICO and at their lower ends to the folding side, and pulleys attached at or near the top of the standards and traveled by said chains, sub- I 5 stantially as described.

In testimony whereof We affiX our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

JEROME BOGLE. JOSEPH S. C. SOWAR. Witnesses:

I. JARBoE, W. H. SEIDERS. 

